British actress Sienna Guillory was so uncomfortable filming sex scenes for her new movie The Goob that she broke out in hives. The Resident Evil: Apocalypse star felt so awkward getting raunchy with her leading man Sean Harris in the independent drama that she became unwell and make-up artists had to quickly find a way to cover her itchy red skin.
She tells Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, "I'm having grubby sex for a lot of the film with Sean and I remember coming out in hives afterwards, literally full-body hives.
"The make-up artist was like, 'you're allergic to the actor'... but it's just about being comfortable, and I'm afraid I just wasn't."

Braveheart star Mhairi Calvey spent a decade battling depression after years of bullying over her childhood fame. Calvey was only six years old when she appeared opposite Mel Gibson in the 1995 historical epic and she has revealed her big break cost her personally as other kids at school picked on her because of the movie.
She tells Britain's Daily Record newspaper, "During that time, I was bullied a lot and had various issues there... When they (the other kids) found out about Braveheart it led to a lot of bullying and even jealousy from the acting tutors. They tried to make sure I didn't act. I wasn't allowed in any of the school plays. It was a real battle. They used to tell me, 'You can never be an actor'. I used to think, 'No I'm going to be an actor'. It made me more determined."
Calvey was diagnosed with depression at 15 and spent a decade battling the condition, and last year (13) she went into another downward spiral after suffering a series of personal setbacks including a terrifying health scare.
She adds, "A relationship ended, I lost my home and lost a lot of money, everything came crumbling down. My physical health wasn't good. I had ovary problems and operations."
Calvey later found out she is unable to have children, and she credits her therapist with helping her through the difficult time.
She has since set up a charity campaign to support others in a similar situation, and relaunched her acting career. She will next be seen on the big screen in sci-fi thriller Abduct with William B. Davis and Sienna Guillory.

British model-turned-actress Lily Cole is set to play Helen of Troy in theatre production The Last Days Of Troy. The play, which is described as a "visceral reworking" of Homer's poem The Iliad, will premiere at Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre in May (14) and run through June (14).
Cole began her career as a model, but has appeared in several movies including Snow White and the Huntsman, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and The Moth Diaries.
Her stage credits include The Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays and a Cambridge University production of The Seagull.
Helen of Troy was considered the most beautiful woman in the Greek world and she has been portrayed on TV and on the big screen by Galyn Gorg, Irene Papas, Sienna Guillory and Diane Kruger, among others.

British actress Sienna Guillory gave up her Hollywood career and her life in Los Angeles and moved back to the U.K. with her family as she was struggling to cope following the birth of her twins. The Resident Evil: Apocalypse star became a mother to two girls, Valentina and Lucia, with her husband Enzo Cilenti in 2011, but the 38 year old admits she felt unable to juggle her acting work with her home life.
The family has now relocated to her native Britain to be closer to Guillory's relatives, and she admits parenting twins has been much harder than she anticipated.
Fighting back tears, she tells Britain's Weekend magazine, "Why doesn't anyone tell you how hard it is? Before you have children you think parenting is about your capacity for love and you say, 'I can do that'. Then you have two at once and you feel like they both need you all the time, and it always feels like you're neglecting one; it just breaks your heart."
Guillory goes on to reveal the family moved back to the U.K. because "I needed my mother", adding, "(In Britain) you can walk to the shops rather than driving. I missed British newspapers and I didn't want my children to grow up in a place where they use the term Mexican in a pejorative way, which happens in L.A.!"

"Sorry if my snoring bothered you."
Those are not the first words I'd expect out of the mouth of someone who got up on a Friday morning to catch the 10:30 AM screening of a new movie but that is more or less what the fellow who'd been sitting behind me said as I passed him on my way out. I'd heard him snoring over the constant rat-a-tat-tat of bullets and butt-kicking being doled out by Milla Jovovich et al in this latest iteration of the never-ending Resident Evil series (this time in IMAX 3D) but I figured maybe I was hearing things. Nope he was asleep.
I used to play Resident Evil on my ancient PlayStation when it first came out. It scared the crap out of me. I enjoyed the first two movies — hey they included the skinless zombie dogs! — but I lost interest soon after that. How many times can you make the zombie apocalypse exciting? How many different skintight outfits can Jovovich wear while killing grotesque creatures who shoot evil grasping tentacles out of their mouths? Why should we care about all the blood and guts when we know the people we're supposed to be emotionally invested in will never die? We don't.
Try as he might there are only so many ways for writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson to give the Resident Evil series fresh new layers for each new movie. The Umbrella Corporation is the big bad. They were playing with biological weapons and somehow there was an accident that let one of the viruses loose... and boom you've got a zombie apocalypse on your hands. Our heroine is Alice played by Milla Jovovich and there is a rotating cast of characters who help her fight the good fight against the hordes of brain-eaters and whatever is left of the Umbrella Corporation that's now after her. There are some parallels to the video game series but Paul W.S. Anderson (a gamer himself) has taken lots of liberties with the basic plot over the years. While Anderson's flashy style is especially suited to these types of movies there's not enough plot to make it work.
We don't go to video game movies for plot of course but there has to be something to hold onto; otherwise why would we care if our protagonist were in danger? Anderson tries some neat tricks to snap us back to attention like bringing back characters that were killed in previous movies and throwing in a cloning subplot that calls into question some of the characters' true identities but it's still hard to get worked up about anything onscreen. However it ultimately sidesteps any deeper ideas that might take our attention away from all the guns. And there are so many guns and explosions and elegant butt-kickings doled out by Milla and her pals (or former pals in the case of Michelle Rodriguez's character Rain) that they blend together.
It is especially difficult to work up any interest in the story because it's a franchise and no matter how many times the stars or director might say they're not that interested in doing another everyone is just waiting to see how much money this will make before deciding to go forward. There is no question how franchise movies will end; there will be no derring-do on the part of the writer or director to actually kill off a beloved character permanently. At one point it seemed like Anderson was going to pull the old "And then she woke up!" trick which would have been bold both because it's such a hackneyed idea that it would make writing professors' heads explode all over the world but also because it would have required Anderson to play in a different universe and expand his repertoire a bit. Alas like Alice and Anderson himself we just can't seem to escape this rabbit hole.

When you click "play" on the new teaser trailer for the fifth installment of the Resident Evil film franchise, you might initially think you have time to get up and grab a shot of the T-Virus antidote, or some coffee. But stay in your seat: what you're watching is actually not a Smartphone advertisement playing automatically before the trailer, but the trailer itself.
The trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution seems to play heavily, although comically, on the horrors in the planet's rapidly advancing technology, transporting us into a future that fans of the film and videogame series will recognize as familiar, but none too welcoming: tyranny, monsters, constant gunfire and explosions, zombies...although we don't get to see that much of the world Resident Evil: Retribution has in store just yet, Paul W. S. Anderson's newest addition to the series doesn't seem to be a far leap from what the existing fans have taken such a great liking to so far.
Add a point if you appreciate the use of The Who's "Baba O'Riley," subtract one if you feel that it's too obvious a choice for any movie trailer, especially one that literally depicts a wasteland.
Resident Evil: Retribution stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Boris Kodjoe, Johann Urb, Kevin Durand, Michelle Rodriguez, Oded Fehr, and Colin Salmon. The film opens Sept. 14.
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Now that there's a new Resident Evil film, Resident Evil: Retribution in the making, it's time that we consider a few things.
The most notable aspect of this new movie is the reintroduction of Michelle Rodriguez, who has not been in a Resident Evil since the first installment...when she was killed. Now, some might be excited about this universe's ability to revive its dead characters (I guess that's all part of the territory of zombies). However, questions are begged: does this do a disservice to the story? And, more importantly, does it do a disservice to the severity of the message of Resident Evil—does it undermine anything, or everything, that Resident Evil could have taught us?
Resident Evil began, as most things do, as a video game. It explored the depths to which humanity was willing to fall in order to maintain self-preservation. It captured an American society at the height of its degradation like no other work of art ever has. It changed us. And then, we changed it.
We made it a movie—and then another movie, and another. There were never enough Resident Evil movies. There never will be. Another is on its way, and it's about time we ask, "Are we really embracing the values that Resident Evil strove so ardently to imbue? Or are we just getting a kick out of cronking zombie skulls?"
It's a question far more important than we realize. When we stop understanding the value of the human experience, and start only working at a level of appreciation of face-value instant-gratification hedonism, then we are no better than the zombies we love skull-cronking. In fact, we're eerily similar to them.
So we implore you, upcoming Resident Evil film, and upcoming Resident Evil film cast members Rodriguez, Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Colin Salmon (also previously killed) and Boris Kodjoe, understand what's underneath. Embrace why this story is important, and how it can help its audiences appreciate what is important in their own lives.
Do it, please. Or else, consider all of our zombie skulls cronked.
Source: Indiewire

Finally, America will get what it's always wanted: Paul Rudd sporting a huge fucking beard.
At the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, The Weinstein Company just closed a deal to distribute My Idiot Brother, the new comedy starring Rudd as a paroled pot dealer. It guarantees a minimum of $6 million and has a $15 million P&amp;A commitment for a wide theatrical release.
The film follows Rudd as a paroled pot dealer who moves in with his sisters as he tries to get his life together. And, it carries one helluva cast. On top of Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Rashida Jones, Adam Scott, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dancy, Kathryn Hahn, Shirley Knight and Janet Montgomery all are starring. Yeah, we know, right?
Anyway, in other Sundance news, The Big Bang was just purchased by Anchor Bay. Starring Antonio Banderas, he plays a detective investigating the murder of an unknown stripper. Throughout the case, unfortunately, more deaths occur. The noir-thriller also stars William Fichtner, Sienna Guillory, Bill Duke, James Van Der Beek, Sam Elliott, Delroy Lindo and -- yeah that's right -- Snoop Dogg. To make matters ever more awesome? Johnny Marr scored the film. So, yeah. Once again, we know, right?
For complete Sundance 2011 coverage, click here.
Source: Deadline

Hollywood’s preeminent zombie-hunting ex-model, Milla Jovovich, took time out of her busy shooting schedule on the Germany-based set of The Three Musketeers, her husband Paul W.S. Anderson’s foray into the realm of period-accurate, 3D adaptations of cherished literary classics, to chat with me about her gripping new drama Stone, in which she stars alongside Edward Norton and Robert De Niro. To her credit, she successfully parried my repeated attempts to bait her into making fun of the curious hairstyle that adorns Norton’s head in the film. You win this round, Jovovich.
Your role in Stone is quite a bit different than what we’ve grown used to seeing from you. I was curious about how it came up on your radar, and were you surprised that it did?
I definitely was really happy to get the script. Since having my baby, I’ve felt very much more open to just going out, performing, writing and being an artist in general, and feeling like this newfound confidence as a mom and a newfound confidence in myself. Part of that bled over into my film career in the sense that I really wanted to go out and audition for things, really keep on my toes. I was really just into the whole process of being a performer again, just going out and reading for a lot of different stuff. When this came up, of course I just jumped on it ... I compelled by these sort of flawed personalities and these grey areas and the fact the script didn’t really put everything in a neat little package for people. It’s very rare that you get scripts that don’t sort of shove an opinion down your throat, and this is one of them. So I was very interested in the subject matter and very interested in the characters and of course, working with Edward and Bob was unbelievably attractive. What actor wouldn’t want to work with such amazing artists?
When you say “Bob,” you’re of course referring to Robert De Niro. You got to be a part of that exclusive club of people who get to call him Bob.
Everybody can call Bob “Bob.” You never feel like you can, because his movies sort of precede him into the room. So, you know you’re always on your best behavior and he’s always like, “Just call me Bob.”
So you go from killing zombies to seducing Robert De Niro. That has to be a little daunting in certain respects, right?
I think the whole script was daunting. The seducing Robert De Niro part, that was sort of just one of the elements that would seem a bit intimidating, but I think the character as a whole – she is very much a flawed personality and at the same time very beautiful and very joyous, and brings a light to the film and the script that I think was really important for the movie. So there were so many elements that I was sort of trying to put together for this character to not make her just one thing or the other and to kind of follow in the footsteps of the script by not making it so obvious. I think it’s always a journey to discover who people are, and it doesn’t all just unfold in an hour and a half, you know? I think that’s what the movie leaves you feeling, that there’s so much more to discover about these people.
With all the characters in Stone, there’s this great sort of ambiguity and a gradual getting to know these people that I think is my favorite aspect of the film. So let me ask you, how long did it take to get used to Ed Norton’s cornrows?
(Laughs) I mean, Edward’s amazing and his process is so beautiful because he spent a lot of time interviewing and hanging out with the prisoners at the Jacksonville County Prison and interviewing these guys and putting them on tape. He let me listen to some of these tapes and it’s just amazing how open these people were to sharing their experiences. And he would pull one thing from one person and one thing from another. The voice is one particular guy and the cornrows were somebody else and it was beautiful to see the character come together for him.
That’s interesting, because I have to admit it took me a while to adjust to that hairstyle.
I think that’s the great thing about Edward is that he really very much slides into every part he plays in a different way and I think definitely the whole persona was something that he wanted to sort of encase himself in because he said, “You know these guys in prison, they really take on these personalities.” They sort of encapsulate themselves in these tattoos and cornrows to sort of protect themselves.
So you’re filming Three Musketeers right now in Germany, and I noticed you tweeted about “climbing castle walls in corsets.” Is that as difficult as it sounds?
It’s pretty difficult. Anything in corsets is a challenge, especially sports or any athleticism in particular. I mean, corseted women were meant to just sit and do nothing, and I’m sort of doing quite a lot of climbing and sneaking and action. One of the more challenging aspects of this movie for me was how I would actually do all these things with the corset on, because definitely by midday you’re like “Get me out of this thing!” I need to breathe, I need to stretch, I need to like bend my back a little bit.
Are there times you look at your husband and say, “What are you putting me into?”
I think it’s wonderful to see Paul doing a historical piece and I think definitely we both share such a love of history and we spend our time off – the rare time that we have it – always talking about history. It’s a pet subject for us, and we’ve always wanted to do a historical movie and of course he loves the action, so Three Musketeers was very much kind of already tailored for him in a sense. But it’s beautiful too, because I think he’s taking the 3D aspect to a whole new level because we haven’t really seen 3D done like this before. To see it done on a historical piece, it really, you really get immersed into this world, the castles and the scenery and the statues. It’s very interesting, and it’s kind of taking it out the whole sci-fi world and the horror world and the action world and taking it into a whole other era to immerse people into the past. It’s beautiful.
So you can confirm that there are no zombies in this version of The Three Musketeers?
(Laughs) Nope, not that I’ve seen so far.
You also recently talked about doing a fifth Resident Evil film. How long do you think you can keeping doing these movies? It has to be exhausting for you.
Well, it’s a lot of fun. I’ve definitely said, “Let’s go RE:5,” but I didn’t say, “We are doing another one,” just that I would love to. Of course for me, I would love to do another movie Ali (Larter) and Sienna (Guillory) ... I love the franchise. I mean, we built the franchise from its baby stages into what it’s turned into today. It’s wonderful to see a four-film franchise with a woman in the lead having so much success and it’s definitely our little baby in a sense. So I love it, and I have a lot of fun doing it. I love doing the stunts, I love doing the training for it; it’s something that’s always been attractive for me. I grew up watching the Thundercats and She-Ra and stuff, so I always had this feeling as a kid that I wanted to be this sort of magical, powerful woman who could fly and do crazy stunts and sort of be a superhero.
Maybe we need to see a live-action version of Thundercats.
That would be awesome. They’ve been talking about doing it for years, but I don’t know. There’d be a lot of makeup involved.
Stone opens in select theaters this weekend. The Three Musketeers is currently slated to open October 14, 2011.

Based on Cornelia Funke’s best-selling children’s book Inkheart takes its literary inspirations literally. It revolves around a father Mortimer “Mo” Folchart (Brendan Fraser) and his 12-year-old daughter Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett) who share a gift -- or curse -- of being able to make characters leap out of the pages just by reading aloud. Unfortunately whenever they do this a real person must then be transferred into the book as a replacement. It can get complicated especially when Mo accidentally sends his wife (Sienna Guillory) into a book called Inkheart only to bring out its villains to wreak havoc on the real world. He spends the next nine years trying to find another copy of the book and bring her back while one of the book’s main characters Dustfinger (Paul Bettany) follows Mo trying to get back into the book. An adventure waiting to happen! The entire cast is wonderfully in tune with the whimsical tone of this inventive and clever story. Fraser doesn’t stretch any acting muscles but serves the film well as its central father figure and hero. Bettany (Master and Commander) as the literary sidekick Dustfinger steals the whole show giving his character heaping amounts of irony warmth and humanity. Joining them is Helen Mirren who adds an element of elegance and uptightness as the great aunt swept along for the ride. Andy Serkis (LOTR’s Gollum) is properly villainous throughout while Brit Jim Broadbent (Iris) is daffy and hilarious as the author of Inkheart who keeps complicating matters for everyone. Inkheart uses sheer imaginative filmmaking prowess with an engaging story that feels as original and fresh as it does familiar. Director Iain Softley (Wings of the Dove) makes the most of the colorful European locations including the picturesque Italian Riviera transformed into storybook heaven. The film is well-paced carrying a great subtle message about the powers of reading and creative writing. Much like the Oscar-nominated The Reader -- a wildly different kind of movie to be sure -- this film shows the joys of getting lost and in this case found in the world of books.

Summary

Cuban born guitarist; born at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba to an American sailor; divorced Guillory's mother in 1990; re-married to Vickie McMillan; died of cancer in December 2000 at the age of fifty-three